The relative deprivation of Indian Muslims will create social and political conditions that may undermine India's political stability...

BY Riaz Hassan 13 October 2015

There’s an acute deficit in development and freedom in the Muslim world. But flirtation with authoritarianism could be linked more to millennia of Arab history and culture rather than with Islam

BY Riaz Hassan 4 July 2012

They are neither mindless nor senseless, only a very different mind-set, with different sensibilities. Surprisingly, altruism emerges as a major factor in the complex set of causes behind the suicide attacks.

BY Riaz Hassan 8 September 2010

There is little evidence of deep-rooted anti-Semitism in the classical Islamic world. So what explains it in today's Arab world ? Surely it is not just the "Zionist lobby" at work to silence legitimate criticism of Israel, as the Arab media dismisses

BY Riaz Hassan 24 July 2007

Notwithstanding the clarifications that the pope meant no offense and, in fact, desired dialogue, in the eye of many Muslims his remarks only reinforced a false and biased view of Islam – not conducive to dialogue.

BY Riaz Hassan 20 September 2006